Food

Harvesting dill seeds is easy. Anyone who cans pickles, or wants to have a personal stash of dill for making bread or seasoning stew will want to see this video. I love dill and wouldn't want to be without it.

Short video showing the basics of pressure canning green beans. One of the goals to work for with self-sufficiency, homesteading and/or preparedness is growing and putting up (preserving) enough food to last from one season to the next.

As the nation’s second-largest processor of pistachios ["voluntarily"] agreed to recall its entire 2008 crop despite no confirmed illnesses, the Obama administration issued a tough warning to all food makers that sloppy manufacturing

This is the stranglehold that Monsanto and the other giant GMO pushers have on farmers. Once the farmer gets hooked, just like a Heroin junkie, he must go to the dealer to get his fix every year, or risk losing everything. And we are just getting sta

The reason it didn't take dozens of illnesses for federal regulators to learn about salmonella-tainted pistachios has nothing to do with federal regulations. Routine but voluntary testing by a manufacturer for Kraft Foods Inc. first detected the

[hah, I knew it] Despite its proven health benefits, a vegetarian diet might in fact be masking an underlying eating disorder, new research suggests. The study found that twice as many teens and nearly double the number of young adults who had been v

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Food is, as we have been saying for some time, the central battle for freedom and survival. "Change", which sounds great, has, in fact, become the mantra of those who seek corporate triumph over independent producers - and it's happeni

Localize yourself. Start a Freedom Garden today! “In our society growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can - and will - overturn the corporate powers that be.” (Path to Freedom)

Scientists pinpoint how very low concentrations of the herbicide and other chemicals in Roundup formulations kill human cells, strengthening the case for phasing them out, and banning all further releases of Roundup-tolerant GM crops.

[Get the message? Think they'll go hungry?] Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of the South Lawn on Friday to plant a vegetable garden, the first at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt's victory garden in World War II.

The effort is to take over the whole game by simply defining seeds as food and then all farmers’ affordable mechanisms for harvesting (collecting), sorting (seed cleaning) and storing (seed banking or saving) as too dirty to be safe for food.

"That is probably going to be one of their greatest challenges -- how can they maintain pricing they have taken at this juncture," ... Worries about pricing and brand loyalty are evident in the weakened share prices of name-brand food manuf

The above so called "food safety" bills in Congress were written by the nation-less corporations such as; Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc. These bills are all associated with the opposite of food safety. What is this all about then?

This morning I opened my e-mail to find a request from an OpEdNews Editor to please respond to the following post submitted by Brad Mitchell, Monsanto’s Director of Public Affairs. What follows is his post, and my response.

Particle bombardment can cause unpredictable changes and mutations in the DNA, which might result in new types of proteins that can have allergenic or toxic properties, but no one at Monsanto had done a safety assessment on them.